Yeah, I could live there.

January 8, 2013

Yeah, I could live there is a not-so-semi-new, occasional D16 feature wherein I post pictures of homes I want to break into, kick out the inhabitants and move in. Today I’m specifically planning to move into a kitchen in Barcelona designed by Daniel Perez and Felipe Araujo of Egue y Seta studio.

Yes, I could live in a kitchen—as long as it’s this kitchen. I mean…

HOW CAN IT BE SO PERFECT?! The floor tiles!!! I’ve seen these Q*bert-esque cement tiles in use before, but never on this kind of scale and never with results quite at this level of breathtaking. It’s not just the floor tiles, though, it’s everything. EVERY. SINGLE. THING. I’m ready to set up a little bedroll in the corner and make myself at home.

DETAILS:
✚ Interior design by Daniel Perez and Felipe Araujo of Egue y Seta studio
✚ See more photos of this amazing house at Micasa and at Egue y Seta

I got so inspired by these photos that I even put together my own little collage (please don’t make me call it a “mood board”). I’m seriously wondering if there’s some way I can find a place to use those tiles in MY kitchen! Doing the whole floor would be crazily expensive, but maybe a tiled doormat by the back door or something like that? That could happen.

Aaaagghhh, the tiles. Love them so hard. They’re quite Gio Ponti-ish aren’t they? Fired Earth brought out a brilliant graphic black and white range a few years ago, that style in your pics included. I worked out it would cost about €200 to replace the horrible 1950s tiles inside the lovely 1840s marble fireplace with really excellent black and white geometric 1950s tiles. Which would have been a bit counter-intuitive but I think awesome. And did I get them immediately? No. And are they discontinued? Yes.

OMG such a perfectly timed post Anna! We bought these same tiles over a year ago from that Moroccan place that used to be in the Chelsea Market before they closed (on super clearance sale) and have been storing boxes and boxes of them in various places in our house until we could start our kitchen reno (this year). this kitchen is so well done! I can’t wait to start working on ours now! thanks for the post!

maybe you could recreate that tile pattern in 3 different shades of vct tiles cut into those shapes? it would take a while, but it might work.

that sink is driving me bonkers though. in a kitchen that size, there is just no reason to have it just so close to the window, especially since there seems to be a tiny gap between the glass and the edge of the counter. just big enough for water and debris to get down there, but too small to clean. it would have been so easy to scale the cabinetry down just a tiny bit, so there was maybe a 3 inch gap..just enought to reach in and clean. would have looked more furniture like too, which it seems like they were going for.

Haha! All of you sink haters can stay out of my fantasy kitchen, then. ;)

I actually think this kitchen is a lot smaller than the photos make it seem like it is. Also, as someone who lives in an old house with a weird kitchen (also with the sink pressed up into a weird corner next to a window!), I’ve gotta say…sometimes you have to work with the plumbing you’ve got or else you enter a whole world of complexities. Who knows what the story is!

in my mind, the windows are really doors and they open up into the garden and the sink isn’t an issue because it’s open air – that’s my story so I’m stickin’ to it … and everything else is amazing too – that floor!

If you can’t find the Carwitham tumbling block pattern in tile for your kitchen floor, you may want take a look at floorcloth artisans that use the pattern to make historically accurate reproductions. Canvasworks floorcloths has one in their gallery here: http://canvasworksfloorcloths.com/gallery-1/ I believe canvasworks also works with clients to design their own one off floorcloths, runners, table mats etc.

What an awesome kitchen! It strikes the right cords between being rustic and modern. Oh, and don’t get me started on the floor. One day I will learn how to lay tile and install something similar in my entry vestibule.

I bought these tiles from http://www.cement-tiles-usa.com/stock/index.php# but the European branch. They are breathtakingly beautiful withe softest hues. With shipping to the UK from Spain they were roughly half the price of any other supplier. I used ours as a mat in the entryway but it is my dream to use them throughout the entire hallway if money ever permits.

One of the perks of my husband’s job (tours in a band) is that we’re often invited to stay in people’s homes when traveling. I have never been so jealous of living spaces that when we were in Barcelona (Germany is a close second). The tiles, the windows, the vaulted ceilings!

I followed your link from your reply today and wow on the tiles having the same design as the link I sent to you. I have to say that the tiles look so much better than painting the floor with the same design.

I love that kitchen with it’s mix of materials although I wouldn’t personally choose all of it. I also love the peep into the next room. The table is gorgeous and I love it contrasted with the tiles (floor and walls) and alongside metal and wood shelving. It would be too much in my Yorkshire mid terrace though.

I love the lighting too although my own kitchen lighting will be even better supposing it ever gets beyond the two huge boxes on the top of my wardrobe. I didn’t realise when I ordered the lighting that they are roughly the size of the bells of Notre Dame. I’m hoping that I will get my act together and have them fitted at some time in the near future if only because my slowness is house improvements is driving every one else mad.